I really should get involved in the asking out process.....
My weirdest relationship kicked off when a mate of mine (who happens to be of the female persuasion) asked out a girl for me. I was at the tender age of 25 at the time and had been making those typical noises about how nice she was, and trying to get her name in to every sentence. Let's call that girl Laura L... wait, that's too obvious, uhh, let's say L Lennard. (I doubt she reads b3ta but I want to see how well the grapevine works)

Anyway, my mate sounds her out for me, we meet up (an idea which was sprung on me on a trip to Bristol to see friends) and it kicks off pretty well. Ours was a long distance relationship... I had moved to Bristol to take up a new job and she lived about 100 miles away, so we used to meet in Oxford as a convenient middle ground.

After a year of visiting nearly every sight and tourist attraction in Oxford, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Londonshire and Isle of Wightshire it was getting a bit tedious. Anyway, she dumped me a day before valentines day (how heartless eh?). Even though I had considered breaking it off in the weeks previous, I was still a bit gutted. Guess that was just a bloke thing.

The moral of the story however is.... don't ever, no matter how tempting it is, get your friends to ask their friends out for you.
(badbob82 actually has mates called Rex and Wendy, Thu 10 Dec 2009, 19:36, Reply)